5-6-7-8s....rockit baby

[Tonray's Ghost]

[golem]

[tonebender]

Funny story from just a month or so ago. There is an episode of Monk, season 4 episode 15, where there is scene with Randy's garage band. Randy is a character that fancies himself as a rock star. He counts off a song by saying, "5,6,7,8 instead of the usual 1,2,3,4. His bandmate protests and says that is for dancing. He says if he does it again he is out of the band. It is a hysterical scene. So, now as a joke I do that all the time with my acoustic show when the cajon player is sitting in. We always crack up and have to start over. I joked that we should call ourselves the 5,6,7,8s and then I google it and saw this band. It is really hard to think of a band name that is not already taken.

[Tonray's Ghost]

Funny story from just a month or so ago. There is an episode of Monk, season 4 episode 15, where there is scene with Randy's garage band. Randy is a character that fancies himself as a rock star. He counts off a song by saying, "5,6,7,8 instead of the usual 1,2,3,4. His bandmate protests and says that is for dancing. He says if he does it again he is out of the band. It is a hysterical scene. So, now as a joke I do that all the time with my acoustic show when the cajon player is sitting in. We always crack up and have to start over. I joked that we should call ourselves the 5,6,7,8s and then I google it and saw this band. It is really hard to think of a band name that is not already taken.

'The Florida Pythons'

But you might need to add some death metal into your repertoire for authentication

[tonebender]

It was really just sort of a joke. We call ourselves Jeff and Taz. We sometimes get referred to as the Buskerteers but I would feel certain that has been used many times. To me using a band name requires three or more members.

[toomanycats]

"Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!"


Seeing as I don't have kids so I'm not up on all this stuff, can I get a ruling: Does this qualify as a Dad joke?

[jhull54]

"Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!"

Seeing as I don't have kids so I'm not up on all this stuff, can I get a ruling: Does this qualify as a Dad joke?

As a father of 3, and a practitioner and amateur connoisseur of Dad jokes, my ruling is that it *does* qualify. I would issue it without hesitation.

I must advise though, that the use of puns is strongly encouraged--almost required--in a Dad joke.

Keep up the good work.